{"id":53178,"date":"2026-08-17T08:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T02:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=53178"},"modified":"2026-08-17T08:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T02:45:31","slug":"trump-envoy-kushner-meets-hamas-leader-to-push-gaza-peace-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/trump-envoy-kushner-meets-hamas-leader-to-push-gaza-peace-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump envoy Kushner meets Hamas leader to push Gaza peace plan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BBC: US President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Jared Kushner has held rare talks with Hamas to discuss the implementation of the US-backed Gaza peace plan.<\/p>\n

A Palestinian official told the BBC Trump’s son-in-law met a delegation led by Hamas’s new leader Khalil al-Hayya in Egypt on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Last month, Trump’s Board of Peace said it had reached agreement for the “complete disarmament” of Hamas and other armed group in Gaza. Last week, Israel rejected Trump’s 15-point plan which also calls for Israeli troops to withdraw and for Gaza to be rebuilt under a new civilian Palestinian administration.<\/p>\n

Eight Muslim countries issued a statement on Sunday condemning Israel’s rejection.<\/p>\n

Trump leads the Board of Peace – created as an international organisation originally intended to bring peace to Gaza, but later expanded to include conflicts worldwide.<\/p>\n

Kushner’s meeting with Hayya is said to be the first at this level since last year’s agreement of a ceasefire for the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n

According to reports, Board of Peace envoys Nickolay Mladenov and UK ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair were also part of the meeting – alongside representatives of Egypt, Qatar and Turkey, which have mediated in the peace efforts.<\/p>\n

No official statement has been released of the talks reportedly focusing on concrete actions to decommission Hamas’s weapons – as well as the withdrawal of Israeli troops and humanitarian efforts.<\/p>\n

Whilst in Egypt, Kushner also met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. According to Israeli media reports, Kushner, Mladenov and Blair will meet Netanyahu on Monday with the aim of advancing Trump’s plan.<\/p>\n

The Israeli prime minister has said he wants a full Hamas disarmament first in order to implement the deal.<\/p>\n

“Israel rejects the Board of Peace’s 15-point document on Gaza. The IDF will not carry out any withdrawal until Hamas is genuinely disarmed,” Netanyahu said last week defying Israel’s closest ally.<\/p>\n

In a joint statement on Sunday, Egypt, UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Turkey, Pakistan and Indonesia said Israel’s rejection of the US plan threatened Trump’s efforts for peace.<\/p>\n

The ceasefire, which came into effect on 10 October last year, remains in place.<\/p>\n

However, the Israel Defense Forces have carried out several strikes in Gaza since then – the latest on “terrorists” in Khan Yunis and Nuseirat areas of Gaza – accusing Hamas of breaking the truce.<\/p>\n

The war was triggered by the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.<\/p>\n

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BBC: US President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Jared Kushner has held rare talks with Hamas to discuss the implementation of the US-backed Gaza peace plan. A Palestinian official told the BBC Trump’s son-in-law met a delegation led by Hamas’s new leader Khalil al-Hayya in Egypt on Sunday. Last month, Trump’s Board of Peace said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53178"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53186,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53178\/revisions\/53186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}